The Edge-ucators Way - Tom March
The Edge-ucators Way
Leveraging Web 2 for Authentic Learning
Overview
Web 2.0 technologies facilitate new and exciting ways to teach and learn. Beginning with what we
know about how students learn best, participating teachers use Web 2 technologies to create real,
rich and relevant learning environments for their students (a new “3Rs”!). Participants will use
blogs as an online platforms to serve rich media content such as videos and podcasts. Central to
this 2-day workshop are two core strategies developed by Tom March to integrate research-based
pedagogies with powerful personal learning tools.
The Four Requirements for Successful Digital Learning
1. Smart Online Environment
2. Easy integration of Rich Resources
3. Digital Learning Pedagogy
4. Self-managed Learning Framework for students
1. Smart Online Environment
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Your current space or Wordpress.com
Get a Blog
Modify the Blog’s Appearance
Settings for success
Making a Post – embedding YouTube
Creating a Page
2. Rich Resources
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YouTube / TubeChop
TED Talks
Get a Diigo Account
RSS Feeds from Netvibes
Set up a page of feeds
Add it as a Pagecast link from your blog
iTunes – browse and subscribe
3. Digital Learning Pedagogy
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Dispositions, Habits of Mind, Intrinsic Motivation
Look to Learn
ClassPortals
WebQuests 2.0
4. Self-managed Learning Framework for students
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CEQ•ALL
The Remembered 20%
Map Skills to Hit 50
The Students’ Half
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Day 1 – Online Space and Rich Resources (Web 2.0)
Activities: Online Space
Setting up your online space
 Get a Blog: http://ozline.com/entry/strategies/tutorials/get-a-blog/
 Make a Post: http://ozline.com/entry/strategies/tutorials/add-a-post/
 Change the theme: http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/
 Comments: http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/
 Siderbar widgets: http://en.support.wordpress.com/topic/widgets-sidebars/
 How-to Videos from Wordpress: http://wordpress.tv/category/how-to/
Activities: Rich Resources
Embedding Videos
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Embed Youtube: http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/
Use &rel=0 after the YouTube address to stop related videos
Embed other videos:
o DailyMotion: http://www.dailymotion.com
o Google Video: http://video.google.com/
o TED – browse: http://www.ted.com/talks/browse
Use TubeChop? http://tubechop.com to shorten / show YouTube videos
Look to Learn
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Sample #1: Miniature Earth:
http://ozline.com/l2l/2010/08/miniature-earth/
Sample #2 VisionSHIFT and Whose Future Post:
http://ozline.com/l2l/2009/06/whose-future/
The “Look to Learn” approach: http://ozline.com/l2l/about-2/
Sample Prompts: http://ozline.com/l2l/sample-prompts/
Harvard Visible Thinking Routines:
o http://pzweb.harvard.edu/vt/VisibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRo
Performance Task #1:
Make your
Own Look to Learn activities (create 1 – 3)
utines/03a_ThinkingRoutines.html
Configuring your Blog
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Using Categories and Tags
Discussion Settings
Revisiting Themes
Sidebar Widgets (Pages, Links, Categories, Tags, Meta)
Presentation – Learning in our Digital Era
What’s critical for Digital Learning to Succeed?
Day 2 – Digital Learning Pedagogy & Curriculum
Add Rich Resources
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Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Feeds – Netvibes.com
 Netvibes Tour: http://tour.netvibes.com/overview.php
 Tom’s Asia Page: http://www.netvibes.com/tmarch#Tom's_Asia_Resources
 Use: Podcast, Anything Flake, embed all codes
Add Podcast Players - iTunes
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How to embed Podcast Player:
http://ozline.com/entry/strategies/tutorials/adding-a-podcast-player/
Explore
o Audio: ABC’s Background Briefing, BBC Documentaries, NYTimes Front
Page,
o Video: National Geographic’s Dangerous Encounters, Washington Post
Video News, The Onion
Bookmarks - Diigo
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Join Diigo - https://secure.diigo.com/sign-up
Get the toolbar - http://www.diigo.com/tools
Consider getting an Educator account - https://secure.diigo.com/education
Join some groups
Pedagogical - Supporting Self-managed Learning
C E Q • A LL / Seek all!
 http://ozline.com/entry/strategies/ceqall/rationale/
 CEQ•ALL Rubric (pdf) http://ozline.com/docs/ceqall_rubric.pdf
 Profiles (pdf): http://ozline.com/docs/CEQALL_profiles.pdf
 Csikszentmihalyi‘s Conditions of Flow (pdf):
http://academic.udayton.edu/jackbauer/CsikFlow.pdf
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Flow overview: http://pursuit-of-happiness.org/pursuit-of-happiness/history-ofhappiness/csikszentmihalyi
 Deci & Ryan’s Theory: http://www.psych.rochester.edu/SDT/theory.php
 Harvard’s Visible Thinking:
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/vt/VisibleThinking_html_files/VisibleThinking1.ht
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 Marzano’s Dimensions of Thinking:
http://www.mcrel.org/dimensions/whathow.asp
 Costa’s Habits of Mind pdf:
http://www.habitsofmind.org/system/files/HoM+Summary+Outline_1.pdf
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ClassPortals
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What is a ClassPortal? http://ozline.com/entry/strategies/classportals/
Chapter 1 - http://ozline.com/entry/strategies/classportals/chapter-1/
Why ClassPortals? http://ozline.com/entry/writings/why-classactportals/
Using a Blog as your ClassPortal (create a new blog?)
WebQuests 2.0
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“Is You or Is You Ain’t a WebQuest?” WebQuests.org / Zunal.com
Reading: What WebQuests Are (Really).
Activities
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WebQuest 2.0 site
Tom’s Current WebQuest 2.0 Process (pdf)
Use the article above and the Designing a WebQuest 2.0 (doc) and the links
below as a guide.
WebQuests .9 & 1.0
 Bernie’s Original WebQuest Structure
 The World’s first public “WebQuest” (not)
 Tom’s Filamentality / Web-and-Flow Modifications (template)
 Other Web-based Learning Scaffolds: Definitions and Examples
 Tom’s Educational Leadership rant about Real WebQuests
 Bernie weighing in on “Real WebQuests”
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Tom’s Main Strategies
The Edge-ucators Way
This is a comprehensive approach designed to empower
all members of a school staff to support students’ digital
learning. Level 1 is for everyone with the next two
requiring more ICT skills but also enabling more
advanced student learning through critical thinking,
intrinsic motivation, Habits of mind and Flow.
Look to Learn
http://tommarch.com/l2l
The total focus of this site is to provide teachers and
students with easy access to rich resources and
compelling prompts as a means to promote a culture and
appetite for critical and creative thinking and joy of
learning.
ClassPortals
http://tommarch.com/classportals/
ClassPortals are a way for teachers and groups of
students to use their shared online space to deeply
explore one main topic. RSS feeds contribute current
rich media, a blog empowers student authors and the
focus gives real practice with Habits of Mind.
WebQuests 2.0
http://tommarch.com/webquests/
WebQuests have been a mainstay of online learning
since they were created in 1995. Tom March contributed
to the concept’s developed, refining the original format
to accent authentic learning. Use of Web 2 tools create
an even more natural learning process.
CEQ•ALL
http://tommarch.com/ceqall/
Technology enables more enriched personal learning
than has ever been available before. But served in the
traditional “assembly line” approach, students tend to
remain passive and “play school.” The Game needs to
change to “Seek All” – a process to truly support
students’ self-managed learning.
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Road Map for Working the Web 2.0
By Tom March
1) Build a Web 2 classroom presence
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Blog or Wiki
2) Gain easy access to current Real, Rich and Relevant resources
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Pageflakes, iTunes Podcasts, valued blogs
3) Frequently engage students in Learning to Look / Thinking
Routines
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Learning to Look  stimulus prompts & open-ended questions
promote a disposition to critical thinking (inclination and
sensitivity)
Choice
Effort
4) Facilitate student “crowdsourcing” of information
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Clipmarks, Diigo, Dipity, Delicious
Discovering Real, Rich and Relevant resources and commenting
on them
Quality
 further develops the inclination and sensitivity that
promotes a disposition toward critical thinking
 pursuing personal interests encourages Intrinsic
Motivation (Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness)
5) Students use the online presence as a regular part of their
learning.
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a social network can flatten the learning hierarchy (Wordpress,
Ning, Moodle, intranet, etc.)
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6) Students tackle an issue, topic or problem to build knowledge
WebQuest or informal pursuit of focused understanding
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7) Students “Serve the Net”
ClassPortal, wiki knowledgebase, podcast series, etc.
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Attitude
8) Students act as content sources and valued members of
learning communities
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Frequently add to blog, YouTube Channel, Podcast series, etc.
9) Students lead the way with innovation
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Emerging technologies are explored and leveraged in creative
ways
Web Apps, GPS, datamining, etc.
10) Students take their place in the world as engaged and
enthusiastic learners and contributors to new knowledge.
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Labour of
Love /
Lifelong
Learning